Different skills, shared pragmatism
Notes on Gergely Orosz's conversation with Matt Pocock: why I still want my agent to question me before it builds, and what a 25-year-old book has to do with it.
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Data engineering, system design, architecture
Code is cheap. Confidence is not. Make correctness easier to prove.
AI can generate implementation faster than teams can build confidence in it. Make intent, constraints, and evidence of correctness clear before code arrives.
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Software solutions do not start with code
I can move from idea to code faster with AI, but the real work still starts before that: asking better questions, spotting constraints, and building the right mental model.
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How I used Cortex Code Desktop to assess the risks in Snowflake's upcoming behavior change bundle
Snowflake rolls out semantic and breaking changes through behavior change bundles. Before a bundle becomes the default, there is a window to test how those changes might affect your workloads. In this article, I show how I used Codex and later Cortex Code Desktop to assess the risks, identify likely breakpoints in our Airflow and dbt pipeline, and map out likely fixes before the bundle lands.
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From principles to production
Why AI makes engineering fundamentals more important, not less, and how they shape real production decisions.
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